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  • Students reimagine retired school buildings to revitalize Georgia small towns

    Students reimagine retired school buildings to revitalize Georgia small towns

    What do you do with an empty building? These students want to give vacant spaces new life. A crew of engineering and landscape architecture students in last fall’s Sustainable Buildings Design course had a unique final project: designing new futures for disused school buildings. These adaptive re-use projects focused on retired elementary schools in Tennille […]

  • Heat poses additional risks post-hurricane

    Heat poses additional risks post-hurricane

    A new study from the University of Georgia suggests hurricanes may now pose an additional danger to people through heat exposure. Hurricanes threaten lives and cause significant economic damage. But their risks extend beyond just the storm itself. “People tend to think of rainfall, storm surge, high winds and tornadoes as the major hazards from hurricanes, […]

  • New Resilient Futures Podcast: Making Sense of SETS

    New Resilient Futures Podcast: Making Sense of SETS

    This month, Alysha Helmrich is our host and guest! This short episode discusses social-ecological-technological systems and sensemaking. She explores urban systems as SETS, positions SETS thinking for sensemaking, and identifies four modes of SETS to build requisite variety. To learn more, follow the links below! Links:Foundational reading on SETSMain perspective discussed regarding SETS and sensemakingPaper: […]